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Ask the consultant whether or not one would be suitable for your mother.

I think you know by now that Dhiren attends one. I don`t think it`s helping his memory at all, but it is getting him out of the house, has enabled him to mix with others and be with a group without being with me.

The memory clinic he attends gives coping strategies and tries to encourage social interaction, but not everyone speaks or takes an active part. I just hope some subliminal information gets through to Dhiren, and it does give him somewhere constructive to go.

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Our 'memory clinic' is not a true clinic at all - the CPN/Assessor comes out to the house just to do the memory test and in our case I fill in a questionnaire outlining how things have been over the previous month (not six months!!).

Our local consultant feels that outpatient type clinics are not suitable - I think maybe this is because we are in a wide rural area. Whilst in principle it seems good thinking, it does mean 'we' are not checked out as regularly as we should be and we could miss out on thesocial side . (See my other thread about frequency of assessments). However for social needs we use the Alz. cafes around us as well as organising our own.

This may be confusing but you will find that each 'district' has their own system.